On Semi aims to integrate passives with fast transistors on ICsNews & Analysis 9/26/2000 Post a commentOn Semiconductor here today announced a new development effort to create advanced miniaturization techniques with passive integration technology licensed from Advanced Device Design Inc. (ADD) of Tempe, Ariz. On Semiconductor said it plans to use the technology to develop manufacturing processes that integrate on-chip passives with high-speed silicon transistors.

XML helps to cut Net data snarlsSpecial Report 9/1/2000 Post a commentMuch has been written about the impact that XML is having on business-to-business interactions as an enabling technology for the automated exchange of business documents. To be sure, that kind of information exchange is a killer application for XML t

In conjunction with unveiling of EE Times’ Silicon 60 list, journalist & Silicon 60 researcher Peter Clarke hosts a conversation on startups in the electronics industry. One of Silicon Valley's great contributions to the world has been the demonstration of how the application of entrepreneurship and venture capital to electronics and semiconductor hardware can create wealth with developments in semiconductors, displays, design automation, MEMS and across the breadth of hardware developments. But in recent years concerns have been raised that traditional venture capital has turned its back on hardware-related startups in favor of software and Internet applications and services. Panelists from incubators join Peter Clarke in debate.